I’m a chilean architect/photographer with an art studio in Lisbon and I’m currently doing cyanotypes on marble

CONTACT

josefa.searle@gmail.com

josefa searle in her studio with blue cyanotypes

Statement

My work focuses on the divine imagination, and how we can connect to something greater through creativity and art.


I try to do this in two ways: the subject and the technique.


The subject is what I photograph. And in this sense, I think photography has the particularity (compared to other mediums) that what you photograph must really happen. This means that the photograph is just as important as the moment that I’m photographing. The documental side of it, the reality, the chaos, no fiction.

On the other side, the technique.

Im very interested in the sensorial part of how we live, and the digital age has helped in many aspects but it has also made our experiences more sterile: very focused on the visual part of it, but not so much in the touch, the sound or any other sense. Because of this, I’m focused on printing my photographs using alternative processes, which create a very tactile and variable result.

I try to create artistic objects that we can experience with all our senses. That change with the light of each moment and affect the space and the people around us.

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EXHIBITIONS

2024 “Anemoi” Solo Show. Casa Errázuriz, Santiago

2023 “Lisboa com olhos chilenos” Collective exhibition. Espaço imperfeito, Lisbon

2023 “Astro” Collective exhibition. Rove, Lisbon

2022 “Emulsões Sensíveis” Solo Show. Dom Towarowy Bráscia Jablkowscy, Warsaw

2022 “Emulsões Sensíveis” Solo Show. Sala do Âmbito Cultural, Lisbon

2022 “Ponto Morto” Collective Exhibition. Prisma Studio, Lisbon.

2021 Art Stgo. Estación Mapocho, Santiago.

2021 “Açores” Collective exhibition. Thank you mama café, Lisbon.

2021 “Kind of Blue” Individual Exhibition. Safra, Lisbon

2021 “Blaw Bora Editions” Collective Exhibition. Blaze Image Gallery, London.

2020 “Primeiras vezes” Collective Exhibition. Na Esquina, Lisbon.

2020 “Ao Sur do Mundo” Individual Exhibition. Empanadaria, Lisbon.

2019 “Muebles Singal” Cyanotypes. Centro Cultural Palacio la Moneda, Santiago

2018 “GIT ‘18” Collective Exhibition. Galeria Itinerante, Santiago.

PUBLICATIONS

2021 “ Ma-Ma: Between Body, Nature and Photography” Tema Magazine #4

https://www.temamagazine.com/tema-4-matriarchy/ma-ma

RESIDENCIES

2022-present Atelier Empedra, Lisbon.

2020-2021      Dance photography residency at Estudios Victor Cordon, Lisbon.

EDUCATION

2012-2018    Architecture Master at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile.

Aesthetics of Photography Minor at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile

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